Job summary
- Main area
- Cancer
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Fixed term: 3 years (Opportunity to extend after 3 years)
- Hours
- Part time - 2 sessions per week (2 x PAs per week)
- Job ref
- 382-DOC60-24
- Employer
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Blackpool
- Salary
- Dependant on experience
- Closing
- 24/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Cancer Clinician
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust wishes to appoint a Cancer Clinical Lead
This is a senior clinical leadership position, reporting to the Director of Clinical Effectiveness/Deputy Medical Director and working closely with the Lead Cancer Nurse and Cancer Services team.
Main duties of the job
The main functions of the role are to lead on the Cancer Strategy for the Trust, and to lead and direct cancer services across the organisation and primary care in the Fylde Coast.
The Lead Cancer Clinician (LCC) will ensure that cancer services are managed and organised effectively to support high quality care. The role is to provide clear leadership to all staff providing cancer care and to work with the Lead Cancer Nurse to deliver the increasing agenda set out in the National Cancer Strategy.
Working for our organisation
If applying from within the Trust, the expectation will be that 2 PAs of your time will be made available within your job plan to fully undertake the demands of the role. If applying from outside of the Trust, we would prefer the successful candidate to have a clinical role in the Trust in addition to this 2 PA position and are happy to discuss this.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details about this role.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Full registration with the General Medical Council
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate qualifications in relevant topic
Experience & knowledge
Essential criteria
- Outstanding reputation as a clinician and clinical leader, with a proven track record of producing high quality results.
- Experience of cross profession collaborative working.
- Evidence of continuing professional and managerial development.
- In-depth understanding of the complexity in providing cancer services within secondary healthcare.
- Knowledge of the UK health care sector.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable experience of a similar role or working at an equivalent level in a relevant healthcare organisation.
- Experience in building organisational capabilities, including establishing a clear strategic vision and direction and translation into successful outcomes.
- Experience of managing organisation wide agendas
Skills & Ability
Essential criteria
- Ability to provide successful team leadership/motivation of others, and success as a team player and the ability to work with staff at all levels.
- A proven ability to plan strategically.
- Political awareness, with the ability to understand the wider interest groups and stakeholders within the Trust, and to work sensitively to overcome their differing positions and interests.
- Ability to work flexibly and to travel across hospital sites associated with Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on a regular basis, and regionally and nationally when required.
Desirable criteria
- Strong influencing skills with the ability to share development across the health and social care system.
- Innovation and vision, including an ability to build organisation capabilities, establishing a clear strategic vision and direction, and translating this into successful outcomes.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Grahame Goode
- Job title
- Deputy Medical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 958259
- Additional information
Preferred method of contact for Dr Goode is via his PA Vicky Schofield by email victoria.schofield [email protected]
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